Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IT is estimated by railroad men that
with the enforcement of the Interstate
Commerce law and the abolition of passes.
at least twenty per cent of the passenger
rolling stock OF the country will pass into
innocuous dessuetude. ~
The two Italians, Geraci and Deluca.
who were arrested in Philadelphia on the
charge Of ofdefrauding Washington Jewel :
ers out of goods valued at 81, $50. were
on the 25th held in 500 bail for appear
ance.
RUSSIAN naval vessels are being held in
readiness to obey active orders at a mo-
ment's notice.
CANADIANS are considering the idea of
having their fishing vessels registered as
English in order to throw on England the
responsibility of protection against the
retaliatory measures of the United States
MR. GLADSTONE threatens that if the
coture is unduly brought into exercise in
discussing the coercion measure. he will
appeal to the Speaker of the House of
Commons to refuse to put motion to
close debate.
Hon. WM MACDOUGAL, one of the
trainers of the Canadian confederation,
has created a sensation in the Dominion
by defending the position taken by Secre :
tary Bayard in regard to the narrow con-
struction put upon the treaty of 1918 by
the present Dominion Government.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has caused
the decapitation of Sayad, father-in-l law
of the late chief of Kohistan, for treason,
having discovered that Sayad was in COM
muncation with Aycob Khan, the deposed
Ameer
THE editor of the Pottsdam Nachricbten,
which has just published the story that
the Car had shot Lieutenant Villaume,
the military attache to the German en-
bassy at St. Petersburg has been sem
fenced to six weeks Imprisonment for the
offense.
REV. MATsoN MEIR SMITH, D. D., pro-
fessor of pastoral theology in the Protest
ant Episcopal Divinity school in Philadel-
phia, died IN that city on the 26Sh of heart
disease.
WILLIAM DUNLAP,a a fireman, and several
others were injured IN collision on the
New Jersey Central railway near Rock
port, Pa, on the Goth.
PITTSBURGH coal dealers are protesting
against the new railroad shipping rates,
which they claim, if not modified, will
prove ruinous to Pittsburgh's lake trade.
ANOTHER revolt is said to have broken.
out IN lne balkans.
The building used as paint shop by
the Austin. Tomlinson & Webster Manu-
featuring Company in the Michigan State
prison inclOsure, was burned on the night
of the 26th, together with some other ad-
joining shops. The convicts in the cell
houses were in a state of great excite
m ent during the progress of the fire, but
the buildings being practically fire-proof,
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real.
MINISTER PHELPS and wife will not re-
turn to London till about Easter.
A FIvE-MILE skating race in Victoria
Rink at st. John, N. B., on the night of the
26h, between Dowd, of Montreal, and
Mccormick of st. John was witnessed By
10000 people. Mccormick won by a yard
in 1902.
GENERAL ELI HUGHES died at his home
in Hadley, Me-, on the 27th. He was Cen
eral of the First brigade of the Connecti-
cut militia at the breaking out of the war,
at which time he resigned. He was
seventy years old, had been married three
times and was the father of sixteen child
ren, ten of whom survive him, as does
his third wife.
Tue following is the inscription on
brass tablet, which has recently been
placed in the window in the south tran
sept of st. Johns Church, Washington:
''This inscription, in memory of Chester
Allen Arthur, is placed here by the vestry.
He was the twenty-first President Of the
United States, worstiper in the church,
and in 1884 erected the window to til c
memory of his wife. He died Novem ber
IS, 1867
THE new Austrian Minister to the
United States arrived at New York on the
2Sth
TUE sinking Of an unknown brig, with
all on board, is reported from Halifax,
N. S.
INDICATIONS are that there will be
plenty of work for the Interstate Com
merce Commission as soon as it Or
ganizes.
New Brunswick is facing a financial
crisis and season of great bankruptcies
is feared.
GOVERNOR WARMoTa's plantation in
Louisiana has been selected upon which
to make Governm snt experiments with
sugar cane this year.
THE Empress Of Germany has sent
greetings and thanks to the Pope for his
favorable political attitude
RAILWAY, N. j., is much excited over
female murder mystery, and developments
of sensational character are being
brought out.
Loud LANsDowNE, Governor-General
of Canada, denies the published state
ments about evictions and rack-rent policy
against the tenantry on his Irish estates.
A SHARP fight occurred between shep-
herds and cowboys near Grants Station,
N. NJ, on the sSth, in which two shepherds
lost their lives and one cowboy was
wounded.
A BOLD attempt at bank robbery and
murder is reported from Antigonish, n.
s. The teller was shot in the head and
side. The robber- assassin was capt
ured.
MEETINGS were held at New York ana
Baltimore on the 2Si h to arrange for den-
onstrations to protest against the enroll
ment of coercion legislation by the Brit
ish Parliament.
II. NJ. FLoURESs, French Minister OF
Foreign Affairs. is reported as having
made some very aattering comments